What Is Sin?

What is sin? Jesus made it really clear for us. While He was with us, Jesus said,

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” – Matthew 22:36-40

There is a quote in many Bible’s by Charle’s Spurgeon (1834-1892, Foremost Preacher of the 19^th Century), “The Law cuts into the very core of evil; it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within”.

-We are born selfish.  In order to love and serve both God and our fellow man, we spend our whole lives fighting against our inner selfishness to become unselfish.  And in many ways, that inner selfishness is the root of sin.  It relates to the sins we commit, but it also relates to the sins of omission (for example when we fail to help someone!)

In sin, we want what we want and we want it now. But we must place what God wants over our own wants!  Sin is any choice that is less than loving or selfish. Or our failure to do what is loving and unselfish. In both our relationship with God and in our relationship with our fellow man, love comes first 🙂 No easy task!  

And yet, the rewards are well worth it ?. 

And Jesus is here to help us and forgive us when we fail.  How Blessed are we ?